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    Apple Daily Advice Thread - February 07, 2022

    Daily Advice Thread - February 07, 2022

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 03:00 AM PST

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    iOS 15.4 makes Shortcut automations way less annoying to use

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 08:51 AM PST

    Apple accused of using NDAs to silence workers’ complaints

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 03:02 PM PST

    Will iPadOS 16 be enough to finally unleash iPad Pro's full potential?

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 01:44 PM PST

    8GB hard limit for music on Apple Watch

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 01:06 PM PST

    It's ridiculous that this limit exists. Is anyone aware of the technical reasons why it is in place. I mean what else am I going use the rest of the 32 GB for? health data!?

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    Technology to Embed Face ID into MacBook Displays 'Doesn't Exist,' Says Gurman

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 05:04 AM PST

    EFF to Appeals: Apple’s Monopoly Doesn’t Make Users Safer

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 02:35 AM PST

    Apple Buys Startup That Makes Music With Artificial Intelligence

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 02:24 PM PST

    Mac Mini (M1) faster than MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) in specific tasks

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 06:53 AM PST

    How to fix macOS 12.2's Bluetooth battery drain bug with one simple app

    Posted: 08 Feb 2022 12:01 AM PST

    Dutch watchdog fines Apple $5.7 million again in App Store dispute

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 09:02 AM PST

    Apple in 2021: The Six Colors report card

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 10:20 AM PST

    M1 Chips for engineering - Review

    Posted: 06 Feb 2022 03:48 PM PST

    Edit- This post picked some needless bones so to give a tight TLDR - If you do anything but very intense computer shit, the MBA is more than enough computer for you. If you need to run software that cannot run on an M1 chip, then I would not recommend getting any computer with an M1 chip. If you don't like the MacOs, then don't get a Mac. And lastly you CAN work as an engineer (mechanical, electrical, software, and firmware) from a 14" MBP with ease. You MAY choose to use other softwares, and that is your call, but you CAN make it work, and it has been great for me so far.

    That said I'll leave the whole post below because it is important to own one's mistakes, though I still stand by my various inflammatory statements.

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    Well this if my first ever Reddit post, but I figured that I spent enough time researching this before buying my computer that I may as well pass on what I've learned to others.

    I'm a solo consulting engineer and I do a mixture of Mechanical CAD (Fusion 360, Cura, edrawings), App development (Xcode/VSCode, etc), and Firmware (VSCode, Segger Embedded Studio, GDB, Arduino, serial emulators) work for a handful of clients in consumer and R&D spaces. Plus I use all sorts of random softwares for different clients (G-Suite, MSTeams, Skype, Slack). Recently it felt like my long-time workhorse was bogging down a bit, and Apple undid their 2016 regressions, so I decided to upgrade.

    For various reasons I used a bottom-end MBA with an M1 chip for a bit, and it was crazy impressive. If you are anything but a professional engineer or graphic designer/video editor, I cannot fathom why you would need anything more than that machine. There are various debates on whether it is a good long-term idea to run with only 8GB of ram given that it reaches into your SSD storage and such, but at least in the short term it rocked hard. It's also really thin, has great battery life, and the speakers are shockingly good. So if you think of yourself as a general power used, splash out for 16GB ram or something, but otherwise I would not recommend the MBP to anyone not doing engineering/web dev/or video editing. Seriously, if I ever see a marketing person with one of the MBPs I'm gonna bitch them out for wasting a bunch of money.

    However since I do engineering stuff all day it seemed worth going all the way to the M1 Max chip on the 14" MBP since it was a fairly modest upgrade to get 32GB ram and the fanciest chip. And I have no regrets. This computer kicks tons of ass and handles whatever I throw at it. It even can handle running an MS Teams meeting AND using their dogshit portal to browse files, which was a nearly lethal operation for my old computer.

    The only downside is that you can't run solid works easily on these new chips, but it A- seems to be feasible and B- fuck Dassault, I hope Autodesk eats their lunch. As an aside if you have the opportunity, I strongly recommend moving to fusion 360 from Solidworks. It runs on Macs, costs a fraction, and isn't a dinosaur bloatware coasting on a reputation earned 20 years ago. Also setting up python was a bit annoying, but Anaconda will handle that crap for you.

    Now the edge case question is for engineering students, and I'd say get the MBA. You likely won't be doing anything that crazy, and the extra portability is pretty damn nice. Maybe hold out for one with a bigger screen tho.

    I've also been using a 13" M1 MBP as well for a bit (a client computer) and it seems equivalent to the MBA, so I don't know why you would buy it to be honest. Especially since the Touch Bar sucks and has only been marginally better than physical keys once, whereas it consistently annoys me having to screw around with a slider to change volume or brightness.

    Also for the PC fanboys out there, all I have to say is that I've used a good number of PC "workhorses" and I am so unimpressed. At the end of the day you get far more performance out of the Mac operating system for a given spec. So even if you can get a 64GB 10lbs "laptop" for slightly cheaper, you will not get the same performance. Not to mention that our $3K+ dell CAD laptops all had ~30mins of battery life after a few months. Plus most PCs get replaced every 12-24 months, unlike my old MBP that I used as an engineer for 6 years and which still works great.

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    Gurman: New entry-level MacBook Pro with M2 chip coming this year, but no ProMotion

    Posted: 06 Feb 2022 06:16 AM PST

    Mac/MacBook owners - do you own more than one? If so, how do they fit into your use cases?

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 10:49 AM PST

    Just curious to see how different people use their Macs, if they own more than one device.

    I have a 8/8/512GB M1 MBA, and more recently have acquired the base 14" MBP for 0% interest.

    The MBP mainly sits on my desk, and I use it for video creation/editing and more heavy workloads where as the MBA I use in conjunction with my iPad for coursework/movie streaming/using in bed, etc...

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    'Angry spouse' throws iMac out of window, kills pigeon

    Posted: 05 Feb 2022 11:23 PM PST

    Will iMac body style ever change?

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 10:58 PM PST

    I know no one can truly know this except for Steve himself, but will Apple ever truly update the iMac? Between the G3, G4, and the G5, their body styles drastically evolved, but then just completely stopped. iMac's body style hasn't really changed in 17 years. Sure it's been reskinned and gotten thinner, but why wouldn't Apple do something new and blow our mere-mortal minds with the reimagining of the desktop computer again?

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    Apple reportedly considered Face ID for M1 iMac, future unclear

    Posted: 06 Feb 2022 07:00 AM PST

    Apple's Retention Strategy is Incentivizing Staff To Leave

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 09:44 PM PST

    ‘Knitters should get to decide’: Tiny Seattle knitting startup pushing to ‘unravel’ Apple in App Store fight

    Posted: 06 Feb 2022 11:45 AM PST

    ‎Wristruments Ukulele - Learn Ukulele with Your Apple Watch

    Posted: 06 Feb 2022 12:27 PM PST

    Hey All,

    For the past year my team and I have been developing a new type of Watch App for hands-on learning. We posted our first version (for guitar) a little while ago, and got some amazing feedback from this community.

    Now, we're excited to let you all know we recently released our second (free) app called Wristruments for Ukulele on the App Store!

    It's designed to be worn on the inside of your wrist, which means you can see the chords & scales while you're actually playing your instrument. This is a simple concept, but surprisingly effective for learning in real-time. (You don't have to stop what you're doing and look at your phone or laptop).

    Anyways, we hope you will give the app a try and let us know what you think, Thanks!

    Edit: thank you u/wisdomized & u/terppatyyppi for the silver awards!

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    QuickLookUIService Bug causing increase in memory pressure

    Posted: 07 Feb 2022 07:55 AM PST

    I don't know how to link my picture to show it but QuickLookUIService was using 8GB for nothing and for the first time my device came up with message asking me to quit some open apps.

    I looked up some answers and discovered I could double click on the 8GB QuickLook to quit/forcequit. The graph showing the pressure immediately went from yellow to green.

    Hope this helps whoever may be having this issue.

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    I still miss the iTunes.app

    Posted: 06 Feb 2022 09:23 AM PST

    I've have never used Apple Music. But I did use iTunes Match almost right from the start; I own have a very large music collection. In the iTunes.app on my Mac I could manage these songs and albums and playlists satisfactorily. But then iTunes disappeared on the Mac, and the Music.app had some very annoying limitations.

    For instance, when I search for 'dance' I see the albums, playlists, artists and song titles with the word dance. And typically I'd like to know in what playlists these files are located.

    I still can see that in iTunes on Windows. This screenshot shows how that looks there, and used to look in iTunes on the Mac. Just right click on every title and I can see and do all kinds of things: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51864472937_f17144dc0d_b.jpg

    But in the Music.app on the Mac this functionality was dropped for some reason, and never reappeared. Right-clicking on titles doesn't do anything, and you can't drag and drop these titles to a playlist on the left anymore as you can still do in the Windows-app. You can only leftclick on the song title which brings you to the **album** it is in…..

    Well, let's do that for one title. Within such an album I can right click the title to have the same menu as iTunes gave me in the initial results. But first I have to FIND that song, if that album has twelve titles that's possible. It's undoable when the album Music.app shows you is 'Unknown Album' by 'Various Artists' with thousands of songs in it.

    It's really strange and annoying that after all this time this hasn't been fixed in the Music.app that replaced iTunes. I still sometimes launch iTunes on a Windows-machine to manage my music (I have 19.000 songs that I own in my Library). Luckily Apple neglected Windows and didn't develop a Music.app yet..

    Last week I have subscribed to Apple Music, because I'm moving away from Spotify. These obstacles spoil the experience. Finding music (the music that you own and the music you listen to from Apple Music) should be easy, just as adding and removing songs from playlists and seeing in what playlists a song is in.

    I've ended up in the 'Unknown Album' with four thousand songs numerous times. Another annoyance: why on earth can't you search within a playlist or album, like on Spotify: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51865458446_bb18915014_n.jpg

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    Do all 14" and 16" MacBook Pros have terrible motion?

    Posted: 06 Feb 2022 06:28 AM PST

    I've come across several reviews that point out the extremely slow pixel response time on these new machines. These response times seem to be so low that the MacBooks are beaten by 60hz panels in terms of motion clarity. I was wondering if other people have noticed this as well and also if there is any way that Apple could fix this via a software update?

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    What are some creative ways that MagSafe could be used in the future?

    Posted: 06 Feb 2022 07:56 AM PST

    I've had an iPhone 12 Pro Max since last February and I'm only now discovering the super neat thing that is MagSafe.

    I've switched my wallet to MagSafe, and I've been exploring options for other things that it could be applied to. So far, I've only found the basics; wallet, battery pack/charging, car/tripod mount, pop socket, etc. One of the more creative uses I've seen is a camera flash for higher quality photos.

    What other creative uses could you see MagSafe being used for in the future?

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    Will they ever make another iPod?

    Posted: 06 Feb 2022 09:32 AM PST

    I've been toying with an idea of taking a yearlong internet break. Getting an old Nokia 3310, subscribing to newspapers, going to physical stores, just cutting out all internet for a year.

    I also (used to) travel a lot, and liked the idea of having a dedicated media advice whose whole purpose was movies and music, versus something that I might also need for maps, communication, photography, etc.

    I almost bought whatever the latest iPod was last year, but I heard the 20th anniversary stories and rumors and thought they'd announce some new version... and they didn't.

    Would there be any demand for a new iPod? I think it'd be neat to have something small that only played music... or something like the iPod video that played TV and movies as well. Hell, make a limited run for the nostalgia appeal, or market it as a low-cost media device.

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